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the sheepskin

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 This is Father's Day, 2022 so a special "Thank You, Dad" blog post.  And here is the sheepskin: It doesn't actually say BSEE but it was for electrical engineering     I found a cassette tape my Dad made of my college graduation ceremony (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) from May 1977.  I tried converting it to digital mp3 format to share it here.  It was held at the Arena in Milwaukee. Radio Shack is now a memory but UWM continues (they ask for money regularly :)   He didn't record the entire two hours (whew) but in case you'd like to skip, here are the times of the various speakers: Part one (about 54 megabytes): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssfk0s8764mu88t/UWM%20graduation%201977%20part%201.mp3?dl=0 0      organ music at the Arena 4:30 the National Anthem 6      introduction by UWM Chancellor Baum 15    Gov. Lucey 23    Bertram McNamara for the UW Board of Regents Part two (about 3...